Best friends.. 😊

For #ReliefWednesday, a fragment of a Campana relief shows a bestiarius in the arena looking the wrong way. 🦁 💀 The bestiarii - often condemned criminals and prisoners of war - were dressed as gladiators and trained to kill the animals. 1/ 1st c. CE, #BritishMuseum 📸 me

Marble relief depicting a procession of the gods Apollo, Diana and Latona. Dating to 30 to 20 BC, the relief is part of the collections at the Altes Museum in Berlin. #ReliefWednesday 📸 My own.

Noi al dolor votati dalla culla siam gente grulla. E poi che liberarci a noi non lice dalli legami delle convenienze tentiam di sollevarci dalla schiera degl’uomini volgari… di ridere di loro almen tentiamo così godiamo.— #MondoDiVersi Michelstaedter Poesie ©️idemanja

The sweetest sound in the forest. 🐦 A wren's song is pure magic. #nature #birds

Can't recall a single male politician being criticized for not having biological children.

Losing face. This #ReliefWednesday we're continuing yesterday's theme with the #Symmachus family, to admire a masterpiece of ivory carving, the Nicomachi-Symmachi #diptych, the two pieces separated in the French #Revolution and one then damaged by fire and thrown down a well.

Io per te ci sarò.

A false claim that VP Harris was involved in a June 2011 hit-and-run incident that left a 13-year-old girl paralyzed was created by a Russian troll farm, according to a report released by Microsoft. cbsn.ws/47y5Vno

The 2024 Harvest Super Full Moon 🌕 rising at Stonehenge last night 🤩 Photo credit Nick Bull 👏👏👏👏 #supermoon #fullmoon #stonehenge #astro #moon #september

The Super #HarvestMoon sets at Stonehenge this morning 🌕🙏 via Jeff Overs

Un bellissimo Tramonto Romano 🤩🤩🤩💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽

Amazing discovery: Archaeologists unearthed a centuries-old statue of a gate guardian, known as a Dvarapala, at the Banteay Prei temple in Cambodia’s Angkor Archaeological Park. archaeologymag.com/2024/09/door-g…

A wonderful arrangement of a writing desk, chest, and various slightly random fruits, put together by Pedro de Camprobín of Seville. Not his day, but this painting needed an airing!

To cheer you up on a gloomy day (there are too many of them!): arrangement of flowers from Pedro de Camprobín, who's sharing today.

La disposizione dei blocchi irregolari delle mura poligonali dell’Acropoli di ALATRI spiegano l’ingegno edile e costruttivo dei maestri italici, fondatori della città. La porta ricava un incavo dove fu rinchiuso inizialmente Papa Celestino V

Plutarch said of men of weak abilities set in great place, That they were like little statues set on great bases, made to appear the less by their advancement. -Francis Bacon, Apophthegms, New and Old, 1625

Adoro esplorare il Museo dei Fori Imperiali nella Grande Aula dei Mercati di #Traiano . L'intero complesso, dentro e fuori, è affascinante... uno dei musei più tranquilli e meno visitati di #Roma 🤍 #Rome

Il Grande Emiciclo dei Mercati di #Traiano #Roma 🤍 #Rome

La splendida Cappella Chigi, con l'affresco di Raffaello raffigurante le Sibille che ricevono istruzioni angeliche (1514). Santa Maria della Pace #Roma 🤍 #Roma